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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 17:12:21 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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   are htaccess files completely considered harmful, or just for security stuff? #apacheHTTPD
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 17:38:33 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman Well, they probably slow things a tiny bit. But they enable each site's admin on a shared server to have control over the site's rewriting rules.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 17:59:59 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     performance isn't the concern. I know some stuff is not supposed to be in htaccess for security reasons.
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 18:01:14 EDT Douglas A. Whitfield

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     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     This is what the project says on the matter:
     
     "In general, you should only use .htaccess files when you don't have access to the main server configuration file."
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 18:07:55 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman Yes, that's why and when they are usually used. Also so that projects (WordPress, Drupal, etc) can ship the file instead of requiring people to edit httpd.conf.